In latest builds sky is just black and Burnout method works(starting the game in software and after loading level switch to hardware). unfortunately this is not the only problem. A lot of effects are missing in hardware mode -sun rays, other lights, blur during loading, greenish color of graphic. Also there is gameplay problems- i cant even finish first level, at some random point controls gone crazy or some of them completely dissapear(movement,camera movement etc.) or just player start to randomly spawn at some locations on the map, or just emu hang up.
Status of the game is INGAME and it is far away from playable. Too bad for that because it is great game and runs really well on 2x,3x,4x, internal.